coat (clothing: outerwear)

Coat, gold and embroidered. Wide skirt, open front, sleeveless but with long flaps which fall from the shoulders and cover the arms. Richly decorated all over with gold and silver thread embroidery and braid. A row of egg-shaped decorative buttons on either side of the front opening. Lined with striped silk.

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